I'm working on the slovak translation of the fudforum, I'm almost done (however I've tranlated version 2.5.2 and now I've noticed that there are few new lines in version 2.6.0, but that's ok) I'm having problems with the file format I'm using. I did the tranlation in ultraedit editor in unicode format, I tried to convert it to different txt formats but without success. I'm getting characters like ßÜ×š in the forum instead of something like čťýáť¨ľúäňô which are slovak characters.
I'm attaching the file I did unicode and some converted (files are not final version yet, they include my comments and symbols e.g. "!")

can anybody help me which format to convert it (which program to use (win32))

I feel like a lamer. I can't make it work, the php function is unrecognized in my version of php.

So I tried to do it other way, keep the file in UTF-8 format, and to set the theme to be displayed in this format. How to do it? I've changed the content of charset file into "UTF-8". But the browser doesn't display it in the utf-8 format(I have to switch it manualy to make it work). My locale variable in theme manager stayed "english" after setting the language as "Slovak". I tried to change it to "slovak", but it didn't help. What else shoud I do?

I found out that turkish translation is made in the UTF format too, how did you set the locale file in i18n folder to tr_TR.UTF-8, while in the theme manager it shows "english"? I tried to change my locale file to it to sk_SK.UTF-8, but it didn't help. If I create theme with turkish language, it works just fine, turkish characters are displayed correctly and the browser is set to UTF-8. How to set slovak language in i18n to do the same thing????

It's working now, but I think that it's kind of brute-force solution. and you have to do this in every theme you create.

I found out that during the theme compilation the {META-CONTENT-LANGUAGE} tag is replaced by html meta tag. where does char_set in charset='.$GLOBALS['char_set']. expression come from??? I need to set this char_set variable to UTF-8, but I can't find where is it comming from, it's not the locale, nor charset file in my tmpl/i18n/slovak directory. So where does it come from?